((11:59:55)) •• <03@xpl0ziv> good afternoon
((12:52:40)) •• <03@MReedB> good very very very early morning
((12:52:49)) •• <03@MReedB> like 4:51M
((12:53:15)) •• <03@MReedB> I am nuts being up but thisis the only timeI csn grt totsl wuiry
((12:53:24)) •• <03@MReedB> total quiet
((12:53:30)) •• <03@MReedB> oh crimeny
((12:53:40)) •• <03@MReedB> my dad is coming to get me at 9 AM!!!
((12:53:51)) •• <03@MReedB> <whimper>
((12:54:06)) •• <03@MReedB> this fish ain't gonna fry
((12:54:12)) •• <03@MReedB> hmm
((12:54:22)) •• <03@MReedB> Dad, the dog ate my DVDs!
((12:54:33)) •• <03@MReedB> hehe
((12:54:56)) •• <03@MReedB> I may have destroyed his old primary partition last week
((12:55:01)) •• <03@MReedB> :-(
((12:55:22)) •• <03@MReedB> the good news is I backed the whole partiton up before I started
((12:55:42)) •• <03@MReedB> <-- insane, but still an awesome Computer Operator!
((12:56:24)) •• <03@MReedB> I am using MagicISO for the first time because I wanted compuressed DVD images
((12:56:39)) •• <03@MReedB> frankly, I find the interface crude and a PITA
((12:56:51)) •• <03@MReedB> gBurner is so much simpler
((12:57:23)) •• <03@MReedB> insofar as I can see you cannot burn files directly to DVD in uif format
((12:57:52)) •• <03@MReedB> you are forced to create the uif inage on the HD and then burn the uif in=mage to DVD
((12:57:56)) •• <03@MReedB> bah
((12:58:40)) •• <03@MReedB> someone drive a quarter mile down th street and buy me a vanilla (5 shots!) and Dr Pepper from the soda fountain!
((12:58:53)) •• * @MReedB whimpers
((12:59:04)) •• <03@MReedB> I cannot even take a sleeping pill
((12:59:22)) •• <03@MReedB> if I did, 9 AMwould find me ,,a vegetable
((12:59:57)) •• <03@MReedB> maybe I should not have taken 600mg of oxycodone
((13:00:00)) •• <03@MReedB> heh
((13:01:22)) •• <03@MReedB> one solution is to keep taking em till I get home around 5 PM 913 hours from now!)
((13:01:38)) •• <03@MReedB> (13 hours from now!)
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((13:02:03)) •• <03@MReedB> sheesh I utterly forgot I promised to go to DAds
((13:02:32)) •• <03@MReedB> I am jusgt gonna call him at 8 AM and tell him no way I can work because I am utterlyt blown away
((13:02:35)) •• <03@MReedB> heh
((13:02:42)) •• <03@MReedB> and feeling no pain
((13:02:52)) •• <03@MReedB> actually, I am!
((13:02:59)) •• <03@MReedB> my back still hurts
((13:03:28)) •• <03@MReedB> they wanted to do x0rays but I think it i torn muscles and that requires an $800 mri
((13:03:35)) •• <03@MReedB> to heck with that
((13:03:58)) •• <03@MReedB> what can they do about it> Give me more pain meds> :P
((13:04:29)) •• <03@MReedB> she told me to go home and stay off my back for 3 days
((13:04:37)) •• <03@MReedB> no lifting
((13:04:40)) •• <03@MReedB> no straining
((13:04:44)) •• <03@MReedB> no nuttin
((13:05:00)) •• <03@MReedB> heh I like orders like that
((13:05:16)) •• <03@MReedB> I will watch National Geograohic Explorer online
((13:05:27)) •• <03@MReedB> they have like 200 full episodes online
((13:06:51)) •• <03@MReedB> what I should do is do the voice overlays on the panoramas I shot last week, put circles for panos and arrows for photos (direction and location = vector = arrow
((13:07:00)) •• <03@MReedB> and upload them
((13:07:55)) •• <03@MReedB> Virtual Pea Ridge is going to be located on ly google website, with the video on that video website and the photos on Webshots
((13:08:08)) •• <03@MReedB> s/ly/my
((13:08:31)) •• <03@MReedB> so far all there is is my front porch - Pea Ridge HQ! hehe
((13:08:44)) •• <03@MReedB> wtf is the URL? brb
((13:09:07)) •• <03@MReedB> oh I am burning so no IE
((13:09:26)) •• <03@MReedB> but just go look for mreedb's google webpage
((13:09:54)) •• <03@MReedB> its a rough dump,just to ensure that the three websitee would integrate
((13:10:51)) •• <03@MReedB> hmm or did I use Windows Live so I could use the plugins you can get for Writer
((13:11:15)) •• <03@MReedB> until this uif is created I am not doing anything
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((13:11:34)) •• <03@MReedB> just frigging great
((13:11:42)) •• <03@MReedB> "Unknown Error:
((13:11:47)) •• <03@MReedB> failure
((13:11:58)) •• <03@MReedB> lets try this again using Joliet
((13:13:25)) •• <03@MReedB> hmm
((13:13:34)) •• <03@MReedB>  ypu cannot burn a UIF can oyu
((13:13:41)) •• <03@MReedB> that is nuts
((13:13:50)) •• <03@MReedB> you cannot burn a uif
((13:14:12)) •• * @MReedB grows angry
((13:14:27)) •• <03@MReedB> one step at a time
((13:14:40)) •• <03@MReedB> let us create a uif image on the HD
((13:22:41)) •• <03@nafets> huh
((13:22:42)) •• <03@nafets> hey reed
((13:22:49)) •• <03@nafets> talking alot as you use to :D
((13:22:50)) •• <03@nafets> wazzup
((13:25:01)) •• <03@nafets> oh well
((13:25:02)) •• <03@nafets> work time
((13:25:03)) •• <03@nafets> :-)
((13:28:03)) •• <03@MReedB> bah I am out of space
((13:28:09)) •• <03@MReedB> that is the problem
((13:28:22)) •• <03@MReedB> fortunately I have a 5 GN dir I can toss
((13:28:27)) •• <03@MReedB> 5 GB
((13:28:40)) •• <03@MReedB> I already burned it to DVD
((13:29:30)) •• <03@MReedB> now I am copying a 5 GB file onto that \disk, giving me 15GBs to pay with while creating a uif file image
((13:29:45)) •• <03@MReedB> s/pay/play
((13:29:56)) •• <03@MReedB> heh it 543 books
((13:30:27)) •• <03@MReedB> 543 EBooks for Dummiesm to be exact hehe
((13:30:55)) •• <03@MReedB> those books are actually pretty good references
((13:31:50)) •• * @MReedB kills the sound on his laptop before it wakes up the wife
((13:32:04)) •• <03@MReedB> she will kill me if i wake her :P
((13:32:49)) •• <03@MReedB> we each downed 600mg of oxycodone instant release after being out of pain meds for 4 days, almost
((13:33:13)) •• <03@MReedB> we had 30mg of oxy and 8mg of morphine each of those 4 days
((13:33:18)) •• <03@MReedB> it was rough
((13:33:38)) •• <03@MReedB> morphine does not do much for me for bone pain
((13:34:12)) •• <03@MReedB> hmm
((13:34:56)) •• <03@MReedB> ( 16 x $30) + (8 x $15)
((13:35:20)) •• <03@MReedB> $480 + $120
((13:35:26)) •• <03@MReedB> $600
((13:35:29)) •• <03@MReedB> ouch
((13:35:47)) •• <03@MReedB> there goes my paycheck on the 3rd
((13:35:57)) •• <03@MReedB> all but $43
((13:36:14)) •• <03@MReedB> fortunately the wife gets another $780
((13:37:21)) •• <03@MReedB> but now that I got the guy who used to hod my meds paroled brother back in jail on parole violations, I can start letting the guy hold our meds again for $300  a month
((13:37:30)) •• <03@MReedB> s/hod/hold
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((13:37:52)) •• <03@MReedB> $10 a day for gas to get her between 6 and 8 AM
((13:37:56)) •• <03@MReedB> here
((13:38:23)) •• <03@MReedB> expensive,  but worth it, as we will do em all up in a week if we hold them
((13:38:45)) •• <03@MReedB> I tore every muscle in my lower back a month ago
((13:39:07)) •• <03@MReedB> they are healing so slowly - every time I take  a deep breathe it hurts
((13:39:15)) •• <03@MReedB> which sets off my pelvic pain
((13:39:25)) •• <03@MReedB> which sets off my left fenur pain
((13:39:44)) •• <03@MReedB> by noring i hurt from my left ancke to my right shoulder
((13:39:48)) •• <03@MReedB> morning
((13:39:57)) •• <03@MReedB> it sux
((13:40:23)) •• <03@MReedB> that is why I got nuts when I got these 180 30mg instant release oxys today
((13:40:43)) •• <03@MReedB> I just wanted np pain for a few hours after 5 weeks of agonly
((13:40:47)) •• <03@MReedB> agony
((13:40:53)) •• <03@MReedB> I cant eat
((13:40:58)) •• <03@MReedB> I cant sleep
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((13:41:06)) •• <03@MReedB> I go nuts :P
((13:41:33)) •• <03@MReedB> weirdly, and Iam serious - I have had exactly two peanut butter sandwiches since Friday
((13:41:44)) •• <03@MReedB> but I still weighed 114 lbs
((13:42:01)) •• <03@MReedB> that is within 4 lbs of my normal weight
((13:42:33)) •• <03@MReedB> my wife hates me for it :P
((13:42:42)) •• <03@MReedB> she had thesame and gained weight
((13:43:25)) •• <03@MReedB> but her ideaof a peanut butter sandwich is to hace as thick a layer of  peanut butter as the slices of bread!
((13:43:30)) •• <03@MReedB> have
((13:43:30)) •• <03@MReedB> ick
((13:43:41)) •• <03@MReedB> that would choke me
((13:44:08)) •• <03@MReedB> bah I gotta knock myself down with something
((13:44:16)) •• <03@MReedB> 1mg of klomopin
((13:44:22)) •• <03@MReedB> and my antidepressant
((13:44:28)) •• <03@MReedB> disiprimine
((13:44:57)) •• <03@MReedB> if I take 100mg of doxapin I would sleep until1 11 PM tonight
((13:45:12)) •• <03@MReedB> I will do that after I cann dad and cancel at 8 AM
((13:45:16)) •• <03@MReedB> call
((13:45:23)) •• <03@MReedB> he is gonna be pissed
((13:45:40)) •• <03@MReedB> but he shouldknow the day  after I drive 3 hours, I am useless
((13:46:43)) •• <03@MReedB> you know, even 600mg of oxy does not get me :stoned"
((13:46:58)) •• <03@MReedB> it makes me happy bbecause I hurt less
((13:47:05)) •• <03@MReedB> but stoned? nope
((13:47:29)) •• <03@MReedB> and I do not take illegal drugs - but one joint would blow me away
((13:47:51)) •• <03@MReedB> I am so glad I quit mesing with illegal stuff
((13:48:22)) •• <03@MReedB> when you take what I do legally, it would be very dangeous to throw illegal stuff inot the mix
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((13:50:42)) •• <03@MReedB> I told th doc I would need two months of meds come August
((13:51:23)) •• <03@MReedB> because Iam not running off to Arabia without a solid supplyof meds,espccially when they expect me to operate 4 out of 7 days for 8+ hours
((13:52:06)) •• <03@MReedB> I told her I would rather burn myself out in 4-5 years, and have $6 milllion with resuduals for a long time of $2 million a year
((13:52:14)) •• <03@MReedB> residuals
((13:52:38)) •• <03@MReedB> than sit here and slowly grow moss and hurt a little more every day
((13:52:50)) •• <03@MReedB> plus, in Arabia I have free medical
((13:52:57)) •• <03@MReedB> just no oxy
((13:53:22)) •• <03@MReedB> which meand i Have to fly to a country that does have it - probably Athens or Rome
((13:53:40)) •• <03@MReedB> hopfully they will let me get 3 month supplies
((13:53:54)) •• <03@MReedB> the King did not legalize oxy even tho I got him on it
((13:54:06)) •• <03@MReedB> he has his provate stah flown in from Spain
((13:54:13)) •• <03@MReedB> that is my other option
((13:54:20)) •• <03@MReedB> to get him to fly mine in too
((13:54:50)) •• <03@MReedB> heh my wife likes the idea of shopping in Rome or Athens every 3 months :P
((13:55:18)) •• <03@MReedB> to me, itsbeen there, seen that
((13:55:38)) •• <03@MReedB> Iamgoing to have to spend  a lot of time in Paris eventually
((13:55:43)) •• <03@MReedB> I abhor Paris
((13:55:50)) •• <03@MReedB> I abhor the French :P
((13:56:17)) •• <03@MReedB> I spent a year on the french border right next to CERN and Geneva Airport
((13:56:23)) •• <03@MReedB> snobs
((13:56:30)) •• <03@MReedB> the french are snobs
((13:56:50)) •• <03@MReedB> they get mad hen I point out they are the most conquered cation in Europe hehe
((13:56:52)) •• <03@MReedB> when
((13:57:10)) •• <03@MReedB> they get mad when I point out they are the most conquered nation in Europe hehe
((13:57:53)) •• <03@MReedB> after Julius Caesar finished conquering what is now France, he cried
((13:57:58)) •• <03@MReedB> do you know why?
((13:58:39)) •• <03@MReedB> because he was over 30 and at age 21 Alexander the Great had conquered half of India
((13:58:51)) •• <03@MReedB> he was jealous
((13:59:44)) •• <03@MReedB> and yew, when he crossed the river into Italy proper with his armies, he really did say "The die has been cast!"
((13:59:48)) •• <03@MReedB> yes
((14:00:28)) •• <03@MReedB> the deck was stackd though - the reason he always won was that he always stacked the deck
((14:01:17)) •• <03@MReedB> he had sent delegates to every city between him and Roma and told them they had to either open their gates and join him or he wouold burn the city and let his army sack it
((14:01:26)) •• <03@MReedB> they all caved in rapidly
((14:01:51)) •• <03@MReedB> he moved in on Rome so fast most of his enemies did noe even have tome to flee
((14:02:17)) •• <03@MReedB> he moved in on Rome so fast most of his enemies did not even have time to flee
((14:03:33)) •• <03@MReedB> but he should have made sure Cassius was killed - he was the only one of the lot with any spunk - Mark Anthony had some balls, but he was rashand impulsive - Caesar *never* id anything without meticulous planning
((14:03:47)) •• <03@MReedB> we know this because we have most of hi diaries
((14:04:06)) •• <03@MReedB> they are some of the most interesting reading I have ever read
((14:04:29)) •• <03@MReedB> heh he had an ego the size of Texas
((14:04:54)) •• <03@MReedB> but he was definbtely a genius, especiaally in politics
((14:05:41)) •• <03@MReedB> I think he was the best general Rome ever produced - not because of his victories - but because he usually won the battles with minimal loss of life on his side
((14:06:39)) •• <03@MReedB> that is why his soldiers loved him so much - he valued their lives and went by the concept that a US general stated so crudely: Let the other poor SONB die for gis cdountry
((14:06:42)) •• <03@MReedB> his
((14:07:04)) •• <03@MReedB> Any diot can be a dead hero
((14:07:08)) •• <03@MReedB> idiot
((14:07:39)) •• <03@MReedB> insofar as I am concerned, we owe Turkey a stab in the bback
((14:08:00)) •• <03@MReedB> they stabed us in the back at the start of Gulf War II and I have not forgotten
((14:08:16)) •• <03@MReedB> we had to go in w/o the 4th Infantry Division
((14:08:48)) •• <03@MReedB> and the Sunni Triangle had time to organize - fortunatel, we put one of the best generals in the US Army in chage of Anbar
((14:09:09)) •• <03@MReedB> I hope he is made Cheif of Staff eventually
((14:09:50)) •• <03@MReedB> I forget his name atm, but he is one of the few US leaders in Iraq who "got it" very rapidly
((14:10:09)) •• <03@MReedB> he did what we did in Arabia
((14:10:35)) •• <03@MReedB> we hired the worst thugs in each region to guard "their" pipline"
((14:10:41)) •• <03@MReedB> hehe
((14:10:47)) •• <03@MReedB> it worked bigtime
((14:11:45)) •• <03@MReedB> *nobody* touched that pipeline - it became a point of honor to ensure *nobody* harmed their little section of our pipelines in "their" regions
((14:12:20)) •• <03@MReedB> heh I \ate a lot of goats at the najlis where my Dad made those deals
((14:12:47)) •• <03@MReedB> bringing your son was a sign of peaceful intent - that there would be no backstabing or poisoning
((14:13:13)) •• <03@MReedB> so I got to go to all the majlis and remember them as young as 3 years old
((14:13:36)) •• <03@MReedB> I also was the UN Health depts poster child
((14:13:44)) •• <03@MReedB> man I hated that
((14:13:49)) •• <03@MReedB> I hate shots
((14:14:28)) •• <03@MReedB> and I specificly has to act like they were no big thing in front of groups of 200-300 bedouins who had never even seen a car before
((14:15:03)) •• <03@MReedB> but that isa large part of my I am so well known there
((14:15:20)) •• <03@MReedB> I was the fist whote kid most of them ever saw
((14:15:24)) •• <03@MReedB> white
((14:15:37)) •• <03@MReedB> and I did have literally white hair as a j=kid
((14:15:54)) •• <03@MReedB> heh they always wanted to touch it
((14:16:45)) •• <03@MReedB> I am hoping to find some film of one of those occassions
((14:17:06)) •• <03@MReedB> I must have repeated it 50 times over thje years
((14:17:13)) •• <03@MReedB> 18 tribes
((14:17:44)) •• <03@MReedB> they would round up the leaders clan of each tribe and hau =l them in in old Army halftracks
((14:18:05)) •• <03@MReedB> so I did it a lot of times
((14:19:03)) •• <03@MReedB> the Sa'uds solidfied the tribal structures of all the trives using money
((14:19:43)) •• <03@MReedB> and they immediately married a Sa'ud to the tribal leders oldest daughter pon conquering them
((14:20:16)) •• <03@MReedB> which means that now, every trive is nowled by an whoever al Sa'ud
((14:21:00)) •• <03@MReedB> the eception until recently wqs the eastern province, which my dad and a few othe men "owned"
((14:21:19)) •• <03@MReedB> the Saudi leader was Ben Jaluwi, the old King;s hatchet man
((14:21:55)) •• <03@MReedB> because the shia population in Arabia was concentrate right next to all the first earrly discvivered oil fields
((14:22:20)) •• <03@MReedB> we ended up hiring shias more than sunnis in the early days
((14:23:05)) •• <03@MReedB> at first, working for ARAMCO was looked down on - it was considered that you had become a detested "townie" man and worked for anotehr man as a slave
((14:23:35)) •• <03@MReedB> then the old King took a trip to London and that woke him up
((14:23:58)) •• <03@MReedB> he demanded some of his sons get exactly the same education as the british royals family
((14:24:01)) •• <03@MReedB> and he got it
((14:24:06)) •• <03@MReedB> and they excelled
((14:24:39)) •• <03@MReedB> there arre more PhDs in govt in Arabia percentagewise than any nation on the planet
((14:24:47)) •• <03@MReedB> ironic eh?
((14:25:17)) •• <03@MReedB> and I *know* they were not "bought PdDs"as so many claimed
((14:25:47)) •• <03@MReedB> the Al Sa'ud trive was weaned by the land and he fighting for over 600 years
((14:25:58)) •• <03@MReedB> they are hyscially larger than other Saudis
((14:26:02)) •• <03@MReedB> physicall
((14:26:15)) •• <03@MReedB> they are also extremely smart
((14:26:48)) •• <03@MReedB> and they have the knack of "reading a maon" or "taling his measure" that is second to none
((14:26:57)) •• <03@MReedB> s/moan/man
((14:28:03)) •• <03@MReedB> they also take the concept of fealty, which is the closest word in Englsih fo it,very seriously
((14:28:38)) •• <03@MReedB> I swore it in 2000
((14:29:43)) •• <03@MReedB> and that, alonn with what my father, two uncles, mother, two aunts, and my mom;s parents all did from 1942 until the late 1990s, is why I am going to get frigging rich in the next 5 years
((14:31:05)) •• <03@MReedB> heh I made it clear to the Gov of Riyadh  hat they all worked hard and earned an excellent wage, ut now they are all old, with massivly rising med costs, and it was up to me to bring home the whole frigging herd of goats, not just a side of one
((14:31:16)) •• <03@MReedB> he asked directly
((14:31:36)) •• <03@MReedB> I told him I would save them every penny I charged them
((14:32:15)) •• <03@MReedB> ie for every dollar they paidme, I would cut out the pure outright theft I saw the contracctos ripping them off for
((14:32:57)) •• <03@MReedB> and I alresdy have a major record of doing that - one that led directly back to a deal between the emir of Shubai and the King oif Arabia
((14:33:30)) •• <03@MReedB> heh when I rehected a lor of $20 million in underwater pipe, it made waves
((14:34:04)) •• <03@MReedB> then I proved the Emir was riping off the King 50% by halving the density if the concrete weight coating
((14:35:04)) •• <03@MReedB> at that point, I got told very forcefully to leace the file on the CEOs desk and walk away - I *dmeanded* my name stay on that report and that it included the obstructionists I ran into ijn Saudi
((14:35:15)) •• <03@MReedB> *that* got the Kings eyes
((14:35:19)) •• <03@MReedB> I was 18
((14:35:44)) •• <03@MReedB> both my dadand uncle thought itwould get me canned
((14:36:02)) •• <03@MReedB> but it turned out the King was *not* getting his cut on the rripoff
((14:36:40)) •• <03@MReedB> heh that made the King *very* mad, plus 50% actually was so much gone that the empty pipe floated
((14:36:45)) •• <03@MReedB> not good :P
((14:37:23)) •• <03@MReedB> the way I discovered it was we woke up one morning to a forecast of 25 mph winds and 2.5 miles of pile *floating* ehind the pieplaying barge
((14:38:00)) •• <03@MReedB> I ran the "sae' all by myselkf beause all the top bosses dor ARAMCO were at a meeting in The Hague, Holland
((14:38:06)) •• <03@MReedB> "save"
((14:39:03)) •• <03@MReedB> I filled 40 foot sections of pipe with grout, tied one to each of 10 tugs I had, had them tie them to the pipeline evenly spaced, and upn my "go" on the radio had them all dropped
((14:39:28)) •• <03@MReedB> we had less that 3 hous to do it before the wind got the waves up high enuf to break the pipe
((14:39:42)) •• <03@MReedB> only one of the pipes ame to rest under the pipeline
((14:39:54)) •• <03@MReedB> all the rest came down beside
((14:39:56)) •• <03@MReedB> perrfect
((14:40:26)) •• <03@MReedB> I had the largest seagoing tug in the world try and pull that one that went under to pull it out
((14:41:14)) •• <03@MReedB> I tied about 20 5" steel lines to one end and used the winch at the rreat of the boathouse on the tug to tryand pull it out from under
((14:42:07)) •• <03@MReedB> the tug sent 60% underwater and then the lines snapped, and the tug lept clean out of the water and put 4" wide gashes thru the 2" thick steel rea bulkhead of the boathouse
((14:42:24)) •• <03@MReedB> heh the idiot arabs wanted to stand there but I had made them move
((14:42:37)) •• <03@MReedB> good thing or they would have alll been turned into chum
((14:43:38)) •• <03@MReedB> anyway, that and my engineering analysis, experimental aanalysis of the concrete, and bgacktracking of what happned where and by whom and who was getting the kickbacks earned me the ear of the King
((14:43:57)) •• <03@MReedB> heh my Pop has never gotten over his jealousy of that hehe
((14:44:25)) •• <03@MReedB> but I got ALL of them a trip to meet the King last year, so he is proud of me now
((14:44:52)) •• <03@MReedB> good thing too, because my mom and one of my aunts both broke their hips immedialtely after their return
((14:45:04)) •• <03@MReedB> no way they could mske the tip now
((14:45:07)) •• <03@MReedB> trip
((14:46:28)) •• <03@MReedB> my Mom had a speech all prepared, to tell him she wss the motherof "Nus-Nus" - the nickname the king gave me in 2000, but begfoe she could speak, he told her he remembered her well from 2947, as she was the first blonde girlsd he had ever seen
((14:47:14)) •• <03@MReedB> he also asked how Nus-Nus wss doing and my Mom told him I was pining away physically, as 9/11 had destroyed alll the plans for my return home
((14:47:22)) •• <03@MReedB> hen she burst out crying :P
((14:47:28)) •• <03@MReedB> hahaha
((14:47:38)) •• <03@MReedB> the prro king gave her a hug
((14:47:41)) •• <03@MReedB> poor
((14:48:09)) •• <03@MReedB> then in Marh I start getting phone calls from Saudi Ministers - the equivalant of the Predidents Cabinet
((14:48:13)) •• <03@MReedB> March
((14:48:18)) •• <03@MReedB> :-)
((14:48:59)) •• <03@MReedB> I submotted 5 projects
((14:49:04)) •• <03@MReedB> submitted
((14:49:43)) •• <03@MReedB> I got told the Foundation has 225 to 260 proposals on the tale and that all 5 of mine were in the top 25
((14:50:17)) •• <03@MReedB> thy made it clear that two of them were their projects, not ones I sdubmitted, and they expected me to get those going *first*
((14:50:59)) •• <03@MReedB> I agreed witth the proviseo that my favorite proposal get a promise of being activated - I even explained *why* it hsd to be *me* to do it
((14:51:21)) •• <03@MReedB> the main problem is severla factions control severla DBs
((14:51:29)) •• <03@MReedB> huge huge DBs
((14:51:44)) •• <03@MReedB> one that would impact the arabid net enormously
((14:51:49)) •• <03@MReedB> arabic
((14:52:21)) •• <03@MReedB> they have been OCRing and making pdfs of every arabic book ever written that they can get their hands on
((14:52:29)) •• <03@MReedB> since the late 1980s
((14:52:40)) •• <03@MReedB> I am told they are up past w milllion
((14:52:44)) •• <03@MReedB> 2
((14:53:06)) •• <03@MReedB> but you have to rememver thatan old "book" was a dcroll
((14:53:09)) •• <03@MReedB> scroll
((14:53:23)) •• <03@MReedB> ie short - not long books like today
((14:53:54)) •• <03@MReedB> that is why you see Roman ttitles like Viceros :This or That in 47 "books"
((14:54:12)) •• <03@MReedB> that means moser to chapters really
((14:54:17)) •• <03@MReedB> closer
((14:54:22)) •• <03@MReedB> geez
((14:54:27)) •• <03@MReedB> I cannot spell
((14:54:37)) •• <03@MReedB> Cicero
((14:55:06)) •• <03@MReedB> my favoreit romanwriters are Juius Caesar and Sudonius
((14:55:37)) •• <03@MReedB> both were the closest thing to "technical" writers as you could get at the time
((14:56:12)) •• <03@MReedB> Galan did an amazing job too on the book which became the standard medical text for over 1000 years
((14:56:56)) •• <03@MReedB> if he had lived just a few years more, I think he would have ushered in the microscope
((14:57:05)) •• <03@MReedB> he was on the tracj
((14:57:39)) •• <03@MReedB> and tha ffamous predicter, that frenchman who made all the quatrain predictions, was a ardent follower of Galan
((14:58:23)) •• <03@MReedB> if he had never written his preductions, he would still be famous for being the one doctor who had repeatable success at geting tht Black Death out of towns
((14:58:39)) •• <03@MReedB> he even suspected it was the rars
((14:58:59)) •• <03@MReedB> heh he ddidn't figure out it was the fleas ON the rrats
((14:59:41)) •• <03@MReedB> butGalan was showing an interest in glass blowing at the end of his life''
((15:00:21)) •• <03@MReedB> we lost any advances in medicine for 1000 years
((15:01:00)) •• <03@MReedB> hehe I am going to film my wife snoring
((15:01:06)) •• <03@MReedB> bbisn
((15:01:58)) •• <04@Jancsy> o.O
((15:02:26)) •• <03@MReedB> I retract that
((15:03:15)) •• <03@MReedB> the arabs, especially one of the latest ones in Morocco and Span, madfe major headway at he beginning of The Awakening, wich did start right therre - SPain and Moracco
((15:03:33)) •• <03@MReedB> did you kno they had automated cutting stone
((15:04:03)) •• <03@MReedB> that is how they got the castel wall stones keyholed and prefect fits
((15:04:10)) •• <03@MReedB> castle
((15:04:38)) •• <03@MReedB> the amont of marble the y moved on the backs of slaves s ubunaginable
((15:04:49)) •• <03@MReedB> sad
((15:05:07)) •• <03@MReedB> slavery and menengitud took dowwn the western Roman Empire
((15:05:15)) •• <03@MReedB> meningitus
((15:05:59)) •• <03@MReedB> Aned the two *were* related
((15:06:40)) •• <03@MReedB> the living conditions andhealth care and disposability of slaves ensured that 1/3 of the people in roman controlled territory died in the 400d
((15:06:44)) •• <03@MReedB> 400s
((15:06:50)) •• <04@Jancsy> are you a bot?
((15:06:51)) •• <04@Jancsy> ;p
((15:07:01)) •• <03@MReedB> then they missed a payment to Aleric
((15:07:13)) •• <03@MReedB> and his Goths sacked Rme
((15:07:33)) •• <03@MReedB> the sad thing is Roime was so boke henever di collect
((15:08:00)) •• <03@MReedB> they had been buying off germans and hiring other germand to bankruptcy
((15:08:31)) •• <03@MReedB> they even had the first "inflation: but lessening the amount of gold in the std coin LO
((15:08:39)) •• <03@MReedB> hrhr
((15:09:28)) •• <03@MReedB> sad really
((15:09:50)) •• <03@MReedB> wiht a littlwe work, we could have daved 400-1500 - the Darrk Ages
((15:10:28)) •• <03@MReedB> by now we would be living on the - NOT damne Mars - the  Asteroid alt
((15:10:33)) •• <03@MReedB> Belt
((15:10:42)) •• <03@MReedB> Obama is smart enuf to get it
((15:11:14)) •• <03@MReedB> his "vison" for NASA sucked goat weiners
((15:11:19)) •• <04@Jancsy> are you a bot? :)))
((15:12:16)) •• <03@MReedB> nop
((15:12:31)) •• <03@MReedB> just an overeducated overmediccated old goat
((15:12:46)) •• <03@MReedB> ARAMCO paidme to go to sschool
((15:12:55)) •• <03@MReedB> $500 a moth
((15:13:01)) •• <03@MReedB> half my tuition
((15:13:12)) •• <03@MReedB> 3 trips around the world a year
((15:13:19)) •• <03@MReedB> why graduate
((15:13:35)) •• <03@MReedB> heh I stayed in school until I esd 24